Duskpunk

Solid dice RPG with multiple endings and interesting characters.

All power to the people!

I love this game It really made me better think of how politics actually work It was clearly made with a lot of soul put into it and that's evident in the writing,the characters,the music,the art and everything around it. It's one of those games where once you finish it you keep thinking about it for months after. Thank you jamie for this experience

This was a welcome surprise. I am a fan of Citizen Sleeper and I'm glad that game has influenced more to be made. Now I would say overall its not as good as CS1-2 in terms of art, characters, and especially sound/music, but it's still very effective and while I would give those two 9/10, Duskpunk is a solid 7-8/10. I did end up growing to really like the characters and the factions they represent. I ended up being won over to the world of the story after feeling meh on it the first few hour but I would say it gets better as you play. As a communist(specifically Trotskyist - Viva RCA/RCI) I very much appreciated the revolution path. I would say ultimately the game is made for that outcome and anything else is just slight variety on another playthrough, the game ends with a Trotsky quote so I would imagine the dev agrees. Pros - The world, characters, story, art are all great and really looks great even despite early hesitation. Cons - Music is nonexistent, if the dev does anything with this game then even royalty free music could possibly help. The gameplay is a negative in so far as I don't think it holds up to CS despite the similarity in mechanics. Just something about it didn't click but it did its job well enough for me to experience the story and interested in more from this world. Also the name is horrible, not sure where the dusk or punk aspect are supposed to be but it feels like a generic name and I while I don't have a better title, I just know one is possible. All in all, a solid game from a solo dev and I hope more play it and I hope more games of this type get made.

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Duskpunk is a faithful clone of the dice-driven narrative RPG Citizen Sleeper. It treads the same themes of individual oppression, anti-capitalism and body horror. If you liked those themes in Citizen Sleeper, you will probably like them here. The core gameplay consists of spending eight time slots of actions, whose success is decided by the roll of two D6s, then resting. With every rest moving you a point or two closer to breaking down. This is a slight downgrade on Citizen Sleeper's system where you rolled up to five dice each day, then chose where to spend them, knowing in advance which actions would succeed or fail. By moving the randomisation to the other side of the player's decisions a significant chunk of agency is removed. When you roll badly, you do badly. Most important in a narrative game is the story. Most of the characters are very two-dimensional. They exist to represent evil capitalists or noble workers, with little in between. There are no small acts of human kindness that are not in service of the railroaded political agenda. Either you favour murder, or you favour a glorious socialist revolution. Ultimately this feels uncomfortably heavy-handed.

Not for me.